Yes, it’s that time of year again! (It’s the most wonderful time of the year!)

All things considered, I think I did pretty well this weekend, although my ankle has been none too pleased with me in the aftermath.

So far this year:
Sour cream nutmeg cookies
Lemon coolers
Sugar cookies
Peanut butter kisses
Peanut butter shortbread bars
Cranberry oatmeal cookies
Bourbon balls
Pumpkin walnut bread
Chocolate bread

Are you ready for some cookies?!

Yes, that is, in fact, a calculator. I bake by weight. And lots of recipes don’t give weights, so I have to calculate what 2 3/4 cup flour actually weights.

And trust me, you do NOT want to rely upon my math skills when baked goods are on the line.

Peanut butter shortbread bars with sugar cookies in the back ground.

Michael is in charge of the bourbon balls.

This is because he eats 95% of them.

(KIDS! Can you find: three trees, one star, one holly leaf, two dinosaurs, one snowman, and two elephants?)

What? You don’t have elephant and dinosaur shaped sugar cookies for Christmas? For heaven sakes! What kind of holiday spirit is that?!

Spent the weekend making Christmas cookies (most of which are frozen/refrigerated in dough form).

Any requests before I finish up next weekend?

Somehow the holidays always surprise me with how quickly they arrive. Luckily, the only thing I have to do before Christmas is bake.

And bake I have. Here’s what I’ve made so far:

Peanut Butter Blossoms
Lemon Shortbread Coins, from The Essential Baker by Carole Bloom
Spiced Sugar Coins, from The Essential Baker by Carole Bloom
Hazelnut-Chocolate Chip Cookies, from The All-American Dessert Book by Nancy Baggett (modified)
Lemon Snowflake Cookies, from The All-American Dessert Book by Nancy Baggett (these were a mess to make)
Pumpkin Whoopie Pies, from The All-American Dessert Book by Nancy Baggett
King Arthur’s Special Roll-Out Sugar Cookies, from The King Arthur Flour Cookie Book
Sour Cream Nutmeg Sugar Cookies, from Christmas Cookies
Cranberry-Caramel Bars, from Christmas Cookies (modified)
Lemon Cornmeal Shortbread Bars, from The Best of Fine Cooking: Cookies
Giant Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies, from The Best of Fine Cooking: Cookies (modified to be not giant)
Peanut Butter & Chocolate Shortbread Bars, from The Best of Fine Cooking: Cookies

I still need to decorate the sugar cookies and make the pumpkin and sweet potato pies, and Michael is still planning on making peanut butter fudge.

Now before you think I’ve completely lost my mind, I did give cookies to my co-workers for Christmas, and will give them to some others tomorrow.

AND I didn’t bake up the full recipes for some of the cookies. So I’ve got frozen dough I can bake at any time. Yum!

Lemon Snowflake Cookies

Lemon Coins

Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies (with coconut, pecans, and white “chocolate”)

Sugar Cookies